Machine-part cell formation is used in cellular manufacturing in order to process a large variety, quality, lower work in process levels, reducing manufacturing lead-time and customer response time while retaining flexibility for new products. This paper presents a new and novel approach for obtaining machine cells and part families. In the cellular manufacturing the fundamental problem is the ...

The Turing Machine was designed by Alan Turing to serve as a general computational model. The machine has a tape to which data can be written by a head. A tape consists of cells where each cell has a value (similar to a cell on a hard-drive, albeit the cells of a Turing Machine’s tape can have more than two states) and that value can be changed by the head. The head can also be in multiple stat...

Abstract Segmenting subcellular structures in living cells from fluorescence microscope images is a ground truth (GT)-deficient problem. The microscopes’ three-dimensional blurring function, finite optical resolution due to light diffraction, pixel and the complex morphological manifestations of all contribute GT-hardness. Unsupervised segmentation approaches are quite inaccurate. Therefore, ma...

Front cover: The four images (in clockwise order) illustrate biofilm development on paper machine surfaces. FESEM image of Deinococcus geothermalis cells attached to a stainless steel surface ⇒ FESEM image of interconnected cells of D. geothermalis within a cell cluster ⇒ Stereomicroscope image of biofilm microcolonies ⇒ Photograph of mature biofilms adhering to stainless steel surfaces in the ...

A eukaryotic "baby machine" has been developed that produces synchronized cultures that display up to four synchronous cell cycles. That such cells can be produced implies that methods unable to produce successive synchronized cell cycles may not actually synchronize cells. But most important, the baby machine method now opens the way for the study of the cell cycle of minimally disturbed, arti...